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We’re rethinking this newsletter

Hey! This newsletter has been going on for two years (depending on how you count them) and we’re around the 10,000 subscriber mark. A lot of things have changed in that time — and we need to as well.

In the new year, we’ll be launching a revamped version of The Week in Fact-Checking to match the growing demand for this kind of journalism. Think of it as a more streamlined, hip version of the newsletter you know and (hopefully) love. We’ll do more analysis on misinformation and technology. We’ll have a new look and feel. We’ll even have a new name.

But first, we want to hear from you. Please take five minutes to take the survey below and let us know more about yourself, what you want from this newsletter and how we can make it happen.

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Goodbye, Dulce!

Dulce was instrumental in a million different things the IFCN did over the past 14 months, but above all for her work on the verification process for the code of principles. Besides launching an entirely new workflow, Dulce took a hard look at how consistent the process had been in its first year. So thorough was her assessment that it (almost?) won over a frequent critic of fact-checkers.

We know she’ll remain an advocate for more and better fact-checking in her next gig. ¡Suerte!

This is new

France passed a law that gives judges the power to remove misinformation from websites during election periods.

Show and tell

The dramatic flight of a former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from Skopje to Budapest was shrouded in rumors about his vehicle and disguise. Many of these have been debunked by fact-checkers on his path.

In its post-evaluation of Comprova, the coalition of media outlets that fact-checked the Brazilian election, First Draft called for more collaboration between newsrooms and fact-checkers.

Pacific Standard is doing a recurring series on how it researches and fact-checks its stories before publication.

The Bad Place

A video allegedly showing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker wearing one brown shoe and a black shoe spread from a Eurosceptic Twitter account straight to top Italian dailies, via Russia Today. The ensuing “correction” was worse than the mistake.

YouTube’s automatic recommendations are sending people to conspiracy theory videos about the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, which killed 43 people.

Research you can use

Bots had a disproportionate role in spreading misinformation on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. election, according to a new study from Indiana University. But not all bots are bad: Fact-checkers are using them to automatically correct fake news stories.

People who dislike the media are more likely to be fooled by a fake headline online — but more confident in their ability to find credible information, according to a new study from News Co/Lab at Arizona State University.